I've often been through a checker at a store to have the total of a long list of items sum out to a whole number, like $80.00. The cashier should most of the time disclaim something like "wow, that something. What are the chances of that happening?"

I would say to her, or him, that the odds are the same as for it to sum to any other number like $82.57. Which, if it did, she wouldn't have thought anything about it.

It's just a number

That's my thinking.

Dave.

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If we don't count our blessings We are just wasting our time

There was a time when I taught math when I taught a class where the students did all their work in class. No home work. That would mean that they wouldn't finish at the same time and need something else to keep their little devious minds busy. So I would have a page or two of mind puzzles.

One that I often used was a little computer program that generated "word finds" among a random matrix of letters. I would creat my own list . Usually math terms or terms related to our school. The words might be found vertical, backward or diagonal along with horizontal. You know the type. The students would circle the word and check it off the list.

One day, after a project I handed out one that I had prepared just before class . While the kids were working on it, I heard the increasing chortle, and snicker and some kids were saying, " Did you find it"

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